Infuriating and heartbreaking.

Hope for a better day.

I hung this work yesterday, and it changed my space, and I lay down in my favourite spot + gazed at it, and loved it, and remembered why I was passionate about selling art for so long. To live with art is like living with a portal, a reflection of the unseen, and it's grounding and mesmerising...

We've had a couple of days of gloomy rainy weather in Ōtara, so I made a rainy day playlist dedicated to the waterways, streams and creeks of Ōtara ☔ #SouthAuckland #GarageParties #Otara274

sharing is caring // this print is so pretty!

The history of the "white gloves" in cartoons. As usual the answer is racism.

I know we screened at 'The Broad' in L.A last month, but HIFF is actually my short films official US premier. If you're in Hawai'i please book tickets and get along to see some of our peoples amazing short films, including my short - Picking Crew. hiff.org/events/picki...

Picked it up! Love it! A sweet small watercolour on paper by Linda Munn 🥰 Ooooo how we MUST buy and support Indigenous artists! Always and forever!!

"Although some politicians argue that in tough times, we can’t afford to look after land or people, they’re mistaken. That’s precisely why governments were created." Anne Salmond: Think like a forest newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/23/a...

I’ve spent 95% of my working life in and around the arts, and in the time-space where I dip out of that ecosystem, I’m reminded with such electric clarity why the arts are perceived to be nice-to-have rather than essential, exclusive rather than inclusive, and generally.. tbh.. for ppl with money.

Picked up a bunch of withdrawn books for free from our local library for kiddo’s school holiday reading challenge. These books have never been withdrawn and are cute af 💓

Accredited Living Wage Employers pay directly employed workers and regular contractors, like cleaners and security guards, at least a Living Wage. #LivingWageEmployers #EthicInAction #TheRealDeal You can find accredited employers on our website here: www.livingwage.org.nz/accredited_e... #nzpol

"Look at them big ole thighs" - A traditional Black greeting of affection

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To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Boop.

Makes my blood boil

ADORE!! Bookmarking for payday. So. Much. Goodness >> @pepperraccoon.com #BigEelEnergy

Back in 2019, I got photographed by the award-winning artist, Pati Solomona Tyrell, and every time I used these profile photos for professional engagements, I felt like SUCH A MF BADDIE!!! 📸 Pati & @tanugago.bsky.social now run a photography studio in #TāmakiMakaurau and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ever seen clouds have a good kanikani? These lenticular clouds were spotted dancing across the Aoraki/Mt Cook skies this morning In this instance, the windy northwesterly was breaking down at the peaks to the west only to rise up again in a wave-like motion The result: these lentics forming downwind

On every level, AI-generated "art" is not worthy of a critical analysis, but the Cannabis Fiji Facebook page goes so hard 😅🤪

BYE Disney+

Good riddance Britomart! #byefelicia Helloooo Waitematā! A name that feels like a rhythmic four-step dance move on the lips! #Decolonise #Aotearoa #Everyday

Hey Bird if the Year fans- wear your allegiance to your favourite bird by getting some of @pepperraccoon.com's work! And if you aren't a pin-wearer there are STICKERS!

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Totally inspiring in a chaotic world!! Big respect to young artists like Patrick Lemeki who has used his visual language to articulate a strong political message about solidarity and commonality between Tangata Whenua and Tangata Moana!! Well done and well said!! The future is bright!!

THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History 1850-1950 by Eli Erlick. Thirty trans people whose tales change everything I thought I knew about trans history. Gender studies are among my new jams. 9-18-25.

The old stone stables at Te Puke o Tara (Hampton Park) in East Tāmaki. An eerie relic of a more pronounced era of coloniality... #SouthAuckland

I did this residency in 2017 when my daughter was three years old & it was SO HARD trying to parent solo for the first time. But I came back to AKL and the experience facilitated a massive shift in me. Been solo parenting ever since, and this week was such a nice win for us. #HappyMummy #HappyKiddo

A reminder that the brutal occupation of #WestPapua and the ongoing persecution of Indigenous Papuans is a horror that is largely undocumented & invisibilised. Like so much black suffering, furthest away in proximity to Whiteness, their revolution has NOT been televised. #FREEWESTPAPUA #Oceania

Parents have had no water all day at home in Suva, and I should stop mocking them that they at least have an embassy in Israel 💀 #Fijiboiiiii

I've had a SLIPPERY finger at two auctions this weekend and I'm now in a self-imposed stand-down for AT LEAST A MONTH 😅 #whatmoney #delulu But I also now own an original Linda Munn watercolour painting 🤩🤩🤩🤩 WORTH IT 😅

The way Indian events run at Barry Curtis Park is like they're not playing outdoor stadium volume DJ remixes in the middle of New Zealand's fasted growing suburb 🤠 Maybe this is just preparing us for Diwali in two weeks 🎇

I am GIGGLING, fearfully, deliriously, anxiously.

My article on Kirk's "Legacy" www.erininthemorning.com/p/we-must-no...

“So they hacked our biology… they change the way we feel to change the way we look at the world, to change the way we act, to change the way we vote… we are electing illiberal leaders democratically because of insidious manipulation.” ~ Maria Ressa

Rangatahi learn carpentry skills while building whare for iwi www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I’m learning a lot about water, the ways it flows and moves. And it’s amazing.

Doing big politically conscious, economically beneficial, culturally grounded moves… is so sexy 🐰

An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER

Che Fu's album 'Navigator' went to No. 1 on the Aotearoa Album Chart this week in 2000, staying there for 3 weeks. Fun fact: 'Misty Frequencies' is a reference to the days when he’d tune his radio to 95bFM to catch Murray Cammick’s... audioculture.co.nz/profile/che-fu

💔 It hurts my heart to read commentary calling for a boycott of travel to #Fiji as a result of this embarrassing display of misplaced loyalty to settler state Israel and its genocide on Indigenous Palestinians. This may or may not have much impact on tourism, but Fiji’s reputation is damaged.

"Smoke-free Kiwis love swimming". Part of the Smoking Kills Kiwis campaign, by Tobacco Advisory Council of New Zealand, 1980s. Ref EPH-HRC-14-37, Auckland Museum.

Like homophobia and transphobia, fat phobia is not actually actually a phobia at all. It’s not a *fear* of fat people (or trans people or gay people). It’s HATRED and CONTEMPT for anyone who doesn’t fit inside capitalism’s strictly enforced hegemonic hierarchy of patriarchy and consumption.

National promised 1000 social homes would continue being built in Auckland each year. They've done 45. Labour oversaw 18,000 over its term. National is now at -577. Incredible #nzpol

Enough to make me physically nauseous.

Imagine! 😑 Fat phobia is a sick embedded language of racial capitalism and tools like BMI have legitimised its violence.